Dean family papers, 1779-1893.

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Dean family papers, 1779-1893.

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Correspondence of the Dean, Bond, Gore, and Mason families of Connecticut and Illinois, including many letters from Lucretia Mason Dean and her daughter Lucretia Dean Gore, whose husband was a Congregational minister first in Groveland, and later LaMoille, Illinois.

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Bond family

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Gore family

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Dean family

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Mason family

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Dean, Lucretia Mason.

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Family residing in Connecticut and Illinois. Little is known about the Dean family, except that several members lived in and around Windam County in Killingly, Connecticut. Lucy Bond, whose 1798 letter is the earliest in the collection lived in Watertown, Connecticut and had daughter Lucy Mason. Lucy Mason had daughter, Lucretia Mason around 1785. Lucretia Mason was close to several young Bond family cousins, Hitty, Lucy, and Betsey, but the exact relationship between th...